Fancy yourself as a top photographer? Then get your thinking cap on, get snapping and you could be the winner of this great competition.

We are inviting you to capture a defining image on the theme of ageing

Fancy yourself as a top photographer? Then get your thinking cap on, get snapping and you could be the winner of this great competition.

We’ve teamed up with Newcastle University to present a unique challenge to all amateur photographers – to capture a defining image as part of their campaign to change the perceptions of ageing.

In return, you could win £500 of photo equipment and have your image displayed at a prestigious exhibition next year.

For your chance to win and have your image displayed at Newcastle Great North Museum’s ‘Coming of Age’ Exhibition, enter our competition to help change negative perceptions of ageing.

Newcastle University is at the leading edge of research into ageing. The University is looking for images that bring fresh insight into an essential aspect of life: age and the ageing process.

Entrants should not see ageing as meaning just ‘the elderly’, but rather the journey we all go through from birth to old age, a continuous process that affects us all.

This competition is looking for images that bring fresh insight into an essential aspect of life, revealing the positive as well as the negative: helping to change our view of age. The scope is wide open. Nothing is off limits.

The M.E.N winner will receive £500 worth of photography equipment and have their image displayed at the Great North Museum’s ‘Coming of Age’ exhibition in January 2011.

In addition, along with four other winners from linked competitions across the UK, the M.E.N winner will automatically be judged in an overall grand prize competition where there is a one-in-five chance of winning an additional £500 cash prize. The judging panel will be made up of Newcastle University representatives and Amateur Photographer editorial staff.

We can’t wait to see how you interpret the brief.

Please include your name, address and a contact number. Email your pictures to the M.E.N at family@men-news.co.uk, ensuring ‘CHANGING AGE’ is included in the subject line. The closing date has now been extended to the close of business on November 7, 2010.

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